[KinkaidAlum]

Studio Red has an excellent new website. On there, I stumbled across several neat projects. Does anyone have more info on the following?

2003 Houston Avenue- Proposal for 25,000 square ft of retail with residential above


Galveston Bay Hotel- A 425 room hotel, full sevice marina, and 2 residential towers...


America's Plaza- 7 acre urban property with 1800 residential units, 100,000 square feet of office and retail space, and an outdoor amphitheater. Said to be in the "shadows of downtown..."

[citizen4rmptown]

link to website: http://www.studiored...s.com/index.php

nice renderings, but sorry, i have no info on them.

[swtsig]

americas plaza was mentioned a few months ago (in one of those houston social rags, no less)... it's gonna be on the east side of 59 just north of the new (hopefully) dynamo stadium. they had a site plan for it but no rendering... nice to see. let's hope it has some legs.

[KinkaidAlum]

swtsig, on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 @ 12:31am, said:

americas plaza was mentioned a few months ago (in one of those houston social rags, no less)... it's gonna be on the east side of 59 just north of the new (hopefully) dynamo stadium. they had a site plan for it but no rendering... nice to see. let's hope it has some legs.

Thanks for the reminder. I knew I remembered something about it. I was hoping it was planned for the East side of 59. I really hope this has legs too.

Also, I think I see water (bayou) in the rendering. Look just to the right of the towers on the right hand side... Is that water? Could the amphitheater be part of the Buffalo Bayou master plan? I am sure I am just dreaming too big.

[Montrose1100]

Absolutely Beautiful! All of their projects look really modern. I hope America's Plaza gets built. I wonder what the Hotel in Galveston will be?

[NewMND]

In that America's Plaza rendering, looks like a rail line going through the middle. Or maybe it's just a row of trees, I can't tell.

[swtsig]

NewMND, on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 @ 2:03am, said:

In that America's Plaza rendering, looks like a rail line going through the middle. Or maybe it's just a row of trees, I can't tell.

that sounds about right because the dynamo site is supposed to be situated right on the rail, iirc.

[lockmat]

KinkaidAlum, on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 @ 10:23pm, said:

America's Plaza- 7 acre urban property with 1800 residential units, 100,000 square feet of office and retail space, and an outdoor amphitheater. Said to be in the "shadows of downtown..."

Is this the one that was going to incorporate older buildings into the project? We need to find that thread. I think I remember it sounding like a project that was well on it's way to getting done and not just some conceptual deal.

edit: found this so far, but it doesn't sound like the same thing...
http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...st&p=240373

This post has been edited by lockmat: Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 10:58 AM

[Vertigo58]

Used to meet many of the group from Studio Red at the ARCH events. Great crowd!

[citizen4rmptown]

NewMND, on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 @ 2:03am, said:

In that America's Plaza rendering, looks like a rail line going through the middle. Or maybe it's just a row of trees, I can't tell.

well since its green its most likely a row of trees.

[archinspired]

Vertigo58, on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 @ 11:12am, said:

Used to meet many of the group from Studio Red at the ARCH events. Great crowd!

are you kidding? are you referring to employees or partners? i've met some of the partners from studio red and i wasn't impressed a bit.

[archinspired]

i just checked their website and i dont see anything, are they even still in business?

This post has been edited by archinspired: Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:45 PM

[Houston19514]

archinspired, on Friday, February 13th, 2009 @ 8:43pm, said:

i just checked their website and i dont see anything, are they even still in business?

Not sure what you mean by "i dont see anything". Their website is chock-full of information and gives no hint of a firm not in business.Studio Red Architects

[archinspired]

Houston19514, on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 @ 8:27am, said:

Not sure what you mean by "i dont see anything". Their website is chock-full of information and gives no hint of a firm not in business.Studio Red Architects

thanks houston, i know i'm not crazy but when i typed it in it didn't work. maybe i mistyped. i asked around and found out that yes they are still in business. "barely surviving" from what i understand. apparently they recently had a round of lay-offs and the staff has been cut more than half.

This post has been edited by archinspired: Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM

[CALMSP]

the America's Plaza will be the start of Navigation turning into teh next "washington ave"!!! THis would be outstanding to have this just down the street!!

[archinspired]

CALMSP, on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 @ 6:51pm, said:

the America's Plaza will be the start of Navigation turning into teh next "washington ave"!!! THis would be outstanding to have this just down the street!!

how is america's plaza related to studio red? are they doing that project or is it a project that has fallen through the cracks?

[Houston19514]

archinspired, on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 @ 9:53pm, said:

how is america's plaza related to studio red? are they doing that project or is it a project that has fallen through the cracks?

It's a project that is on their website.

[TheNiche]

Houston19514, on Monday, February 16th, 2009 @ 10:37am, said:

It's a project that is on their website.

Yep, they had done a conceptual rendering at one point for land owned by Alan Atkinson. It's not really an active project though, at least in the form that is pictured. I've talked with him about his plans, and he made no mention of highrises. There are some similarities as far as site planning is concerned, though. His wife Valentina actually operates Canal Street Gallery out of a warehouse that's on the western parcel.

This post has been edited by TheNiche: Monday, February 16, 2009 at 12:01 PM

[Urbannizer]

Rendering of the Galveston-Bay Hotel




Also here's the old thread for America's Plaza.
http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=17109

This post has been edited by UpuPUp!: Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM

[lockmat]

lockmat, on Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM, said:

Is this the one that was going to incorporate older buildings into the project? We need to find that thread. I think I remember it sounding like a project that was well on it's way to getting done and not just some conceptual deal.

edit: found this so far, but it doesn't sound like the same thing...
http://www.houstonar...i...st&p=240373

Here is the America's Plaza project website. Either that rendering was just a proposal or it's next to the real American's Plaza and they're just calling it the same thing.

http://www.americasplaza.net/